Adam lives in a neighbourhood adjacent to that of the late Breonna Taylor in Louisville, KY, and these poems are concerned with the intersection of social justice and Buddhism. Adam is the author of Left-Handed Wolf (LSU Press, 2020), and of Model of a City in Civil War (Sarabande Books), and the recipient of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for Badger, Apocrypha, and of a PEN Award. They are also editor of the forthcoming anthology, Divine Orphans of the Poetic Project, from 1913 Press, and thier work has appeared in the Poetry New Zealand, Sweet Mammalian, American Poetry Review, Takahē, Turbine, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.